Portland Bill - watercolor

watercolor, 2017

available, 11"x15"

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      Just a quick landscape of the Portland Bill Lighthouse and a couple resting boats. I tried phthalo blue for the sky. In mass tone I hate the phthalo colors. But, when applied fairly thin, phthalo blue makes a nice sky. I'm also happy with how the ocean and surf worked -- and how easy it was. I usually struggle with believable surf.

Carricknahowley - watercolor

watercolor, 2017

available, 9"x12"

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      I'm very happy with this one. It's just loose enough; it's Ireland; the sky isn't completely terrible. I actually found the location through a YouTube clip from a BBC show called Awash With Colour wherein Dermot Cavanagh teaches a celebrity to paint a particular scene in Ireland. In one episode Cavanagh and the celebrity of the week (I don't remember who it was now.) painted this location from a different perspective. I found the location and several photos of it through Google Maps.

Sullivan's Island - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

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      I took a lot of reference photos during our September 2015 trip to Charleston, SC. When I took this one I knew it was kind of cliche. A photo of any kind of sailboat on the beach is on every real estate and tourism brochure for every coastal community in the world. But this one works, I think, since I framed the lighthouse in the rigging and I'm very happy with the looseness.

Red Boat, Manteo - watercolor

watercolor, 2016

available, 11"x15"

prints also available

      I took the reference photo for this when my wife and I went to the Outer Banks of North Carolina last year to celebrate our 25th anniversary. Today is our 26th.

      I probably can count the number of water scenes I've painted on one hand. I never feel like I capture it just right. But, this one worked out pretty well. 

The Chappie At Wanchese - gouache

gouache, 2015

11"x15" $125

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      The Chappie has been out of the water four years. After her owner and captain died his daughters spent a large sum having her set here just a few feet from the Wanchese commercial fishing marina, facing the sea, just behind the viewer's standpoint.

Waterway - watercolor + ink

mixed, 2014

original available - 9"x12" $65

prints also available

Virtual Paintout (http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com/) is in Slovenia this month. This scene is found in Seca, Piran.

Venice - ink + watercolor

mixed, 2013

for Virtual Paintout - http://virtualpaintout.blogspot.com

prints available